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Re: HIV testing From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Fri Dec 12 14:22:04 2003 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Ricardo Savaris: "Septic abortion and death (long case)" Previous message: Dr. Ainsworth: "Re: HIV testing" In reply to: Dr. Ainsworth: "Re: HIV testing" Next in thread: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: HIV testing" A pet peeve of mine is big commercial labs getting all the biz because of insurance contracts at the expense of specialty labs. if your car needed transmission work, would you take it to the local gas station or to aamco? we have yet to have a big lab's positive toxo titer pan out as a true positive - when we send the specimen to palo alto for further evaluation, the patient is always found to be ok. i think that's what you're up against. you might wish to send confirmatory tests to the nearest ID lab if possible. art At Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Dr. Ainsworth wrote: > >LabCorp and Quest > >>which labs if you don't mind my asking? >> >>art >> >>At Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Dr. Ainsworth wrote: >>> >>>That is correct, the Western Blot tests for different proteins of the >>>virus. But why should two national labs produce Western Blots different >>>results on the same patient, drawn two weeks apart?? >>> >>>>I may be mistaken but isn't the ELISA is the more sensitive test, the >>>>Western Blot the more specific? Therefore, if the Western Blot is >>>>negative - would support HIV negative status. >>>> >>>>art >>>> >>>>At Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Dr. Ainsworth wrote: >>>>> >>>>>No ID specialists in this neck of the woods. I have spoken with a >>>>>heme/onc who manages a fair number of HIV patients. Once I get more lab >>>>>data back, I will have her see a perinatologist for a consult. >>>>> >>>>>>Infectious disease consult?? >>>>>> >>>>>>Lenora McCall, CNM >>>>>> >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117 >>>>>>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >>>>>> >>>>>>Infectious disease consult?? >>>>>>  >>>>>>Lenora McCall, CNM >>>>>> >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>> >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>art fougner, md >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>> >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>>ich bin ein New Yorker >>>>>>-------------------------------1071098117-- >>>> >>-- >>art fougner, md >>ich bin ein New Yorker >> -- art fougner, md ich bin ein New Yorker Next message: Ricardo Savaris: "Septic abortion and death (long case)" Previous message: Dr. Ainsworth: "Re: HIV testing" In reply to: Dr. Ainsworth: "Re: HIV testing" Next in thread: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: HIV testing"

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